New York City and Boston get gold stars for topping this year’s City Clean Energy Scorecard. But even their high marks show great room for improvement. Plus, fires in California are devastating the state, and officials say there’s also a risk for fires here in New England. And, a Boston neighborhood fights for its trees: how a boulevard redesign threatens to intensify the damaging environmental impact.

Guests:

Beth Daley - Editor and general manager at The Conversation, U.S.

Dr. Aaron Bernstein- Interim director of The Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, a pediatrician at Boston Children’s Hospital, and an assistant professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School

Cabell Eames - Legislative manager at the Better Future Project, a Massachusetts-based grassroots climate-action organization